Design Your Winning Game Plan Quotes
Victory is decided in preparation, long before the day arrives. The man with a real plan executes while everyone else improvises. This Vision path holds history's sharpest quotes on planning, preparation, and strategy. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“What is important is seldom urgent, and what is urgent is seldom important.”
“Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation.”
“You can't predict. You can prepare.”
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.”
“What gets scheduled gets done.”
“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
“In business, things take three times as long, are three times as costly and are three times more difficult than you project them to be.”
“The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.”
“Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.”
“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.”
“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don't have a plan.”
“Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.”
“You cannot predict the future, but you can invent it.”
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
“It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”
“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.”
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are.”
“To be prepared is half the victory.”
“Success is never accidental.”
“Failing to consider second- and third-order consequences is the cause of a lot of painfully bad decisions.”
“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”
“Every goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.”
“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it…”
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
“It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.”
“An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.”
“You've got to think about the big things while you're doing the small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”
“Plan your work and work your plan.”
“No wind favors he who has no destined port.”
“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.”
“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”
“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.”
“One must have strategies to execute dreams.”
“Proper preparation prevents poor performance.”
“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”
“The future is not a gift; it is an achievement.”
“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”
“It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.”
“If you talk about it, it's a dream. If you envision it, it's possible. If you schedule it, it's real.”
“A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow.”
“The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.”
“Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.”
“Every battle is won before it is ever fought.”
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.”
“A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.”
“Before you begin scrambling up the ladder of success, make sure that it is leaning against the right building.”
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”
“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.”
“You don't need to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.”
“Vision without execution is hallucination.”
“The general who wins makes many calculations before the battle is fought.”
“We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details”
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
“The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.”
“Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.”
“There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.”
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
“It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.”
“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”
“If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”
“The essence of self-discipline is to do the important thing rather than the urgent thing.”
